Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
House Speaker Gaye Symington prepares to name three legislators to the Judicial Nominating Committee; a proposed housing project in Manchester wouldn’t affect an area where hundreds of bats are known to hibernate; hearings are scheduled to get publis input on proposed changes to deer hunting regulations; a U.S. Department of Agriculture official from Brattleboro is headed to Afghanistan to work for six months as an agricultural adviser; New Hampshire police chiefs try change a seatbelt law.
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